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Microfiche 

Series. 


CIHIVI/ICIVIH 
Collection  de 
microfiches. 


Canadian  Institute  for  Historicai  IMicroreprodurtions  /  Institut  Canadian  de  microreproductions  historiques 


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Tschnical  and  Bibliographic  Notaa/Notaa  taohniquaa  at  bibliographiquaa 


Tha  Inatituta  haa  attamptad  to  obtain  tha  baat 
original  copy  avaiiabia  for  filming.  Faaturaa  of  ttiia 
copy  which  may  ba  bib(iograp^.ieally  uniqua. 
which  may  altar  any  of  tha  imagaa  in  tha 
raproduction.  or  which  may  significantly  changa 
tha  uauai  mathod  of  filming,  ara  chaokad  balow. 


□    Cdourad  covara/ 
Couvarturo  da  coulaur 


r~|   Covara  damagad/ 


Couvartura  andommag^a 


□   Covara  raatorad  and/or  laminatad/ 
Couvartura  raataurte  at/ou  palliculAa 

□   Covar  titia  miaaing/ 
La  titra  da  co'^vartura  manqua 

□   Colourad  mapa/ 
Cartaa  gAographiquaa  1%  coulaur 


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Colo'irad  inic  (i.a.  othar  than  blua  or  blacic)/ 
Encra  da  coulaur  (i.a.  autra  qua  blaua  <>•:  noira) 


r~n   Colourad  plataa  and/or  illuatrationa/ 


Planchaa  at/ou  illuatrationa  1%  coulaur 


Bound  with  othar  matarial/ 
RalM  avae  d'autraa  doeumanta 


Tight  binding  may  cauaa  ahkHiowa  or  diatortion 
along  intarior  margin/ 

Larcliura  sarria  paut  cauaar  da  I'ombra  ou  da  la 
diatoraion  ■•  long  da  la  marga  intiriaura 

Blanic  laavaa  addad  during  rastoration  may 
appaar  within  tha  taxt.  Whanavar  possibia,  thaaa 
hava  baan  omittad  from  filming/ 
II  so  paut  qua  cartainaa  pagoa  blanches  ajoutias 
lors  d'una  raatauratlon  apparaiaaant  dana  la  taxta. 
maia,  lorsqua  cala  Atait  poasibia,  caa  pagaa  n'ont 
paa  «tA  filmiaa. 


L'Inatitut  a  microfilm*  la  maillaur  axampiaira 
qu'il  lui  a  it*  poasibia  da  sa  procurer.  Los  details 
da  cat  axamplaira  qui  sont  paut-*tra  uniquas  du 
point  da  vua  bibliographiqua,  qui  pauvant  modif  iar 
una  imaga  raproduita.  ou  qui  pauvant  axigar  una 
modification  dana  la  mithoda  normala  da  fiimaga 
aont  indiquAa  ci*daaaous. 


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to  til 


pn  Colourad  pagaa/ 


Pagaa  da  coulaur 

Pagaa  damagad/ 
Pagaa  andommagias 

Pcgaa  raatorad  and/01 

Pagaa  raataurtas  at/ou  paiiiculAas 

Pagaa  discoiourad.  stsinad  or  foxai 
Pagaa  dAcolorAas,  tachatias  ou  piquios 

Pagaa  datachad/ 
Pagaa  dAtach*as 

Showthrough> 
Tranaparanca 

Quality  of  prir 

Qualit*  in4gal*  da  I'imprassion 

Inciudaa  supplamantary  matarii 
Comprand  du  material  suppiimantaira 

Only  adition  avaiiabia/ 
Saulo  Mition  disponibia 


rn  Pagaa  damagad/ 

r~~|  Pcgaa  raatorad  and/or  laminatad/ 

r~7\  Pagaa  discoiourad.  stsinad  or  foxad/ 

r*n  Pagaa  datachad/ 

r~J|  Showthrough/ 

r~l  Quality  of  print  variaa/ 

j~n  Inciudaa  supplamantary  matarial/ 

rn  Only  adition  avaiiabia/ 


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Pagaa  wholly  or  partially  obscured  by  errata 
slips,  tissuaa.  etc..  have  been  refilmed  to 
ensure  the  best  possible  image/ 
Lea  pagaa  totalement  ou  partiellement 
obacurclas  par  un  fauillet  d'errata.  una  pelure. 
etc..  ont  *ti  filmies  i  nouveau  da  fapon  A 
obtanir  la  mailleure  imaga  possible. 


Additional  comments:/ 
Commentairea  supplimentairaa: 


Irrsgular  pagination  :   [1]- 4. 7 -18. 5 -6, 19 -20  p. 


This  item  is  filmed  st  the  reduction  ratio  checlced  below/ 

Ce  document  est  film*  au  taux  da  rAduction  indiqu*  ci*de8sous. 


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rails 

Th«  copy  filmtd  h«r«  has  b««n  raproiluoMl  thanks 
to  th«  ganaroslty  of: 

Brock  Unhrtnity 
StCatharinM 

L'Momplairo  film*  fut  raproduit  griea  A  la 
a«n«rositi  da: 

Brock  University 
St  CctliarinM 

Tha  Imagaa  appaaring  hara  ara  tha  baat  quality 
poaalbia  ^onaidaring  tha  condition  and  lagibliity 
of  tha  original  copy  »nd  in  kaaping  with  tha 
filming  contract  spscif Icationa. 


Original  copiaa  in  printad  papar  covara  ara  fUnMd 
iMginnlng  with  tha  front  covar  and  anding  on 
tha  last  paga  with  a  printad  or  illuatratad  impraa- 
•ton.  or  tha  back  covar  whan  appropriata.  AN 
othar  original  copiaa  ara  tilmad  baginning  on  tha 
first  paga  wHih  a  printad  or  illuatratad  Impraa* 
slon,  and  anding  on  tha  laat  paga  with  a  printad 
or  Illuatratad  impraaaton. 


Tha  laat  racordad  frama  on  aach  microflcha 
shaH  contain  tha  symbol  -n^  (moaning  "CON- 
TINUED"),  or  tha  symbol  V  (moaning  "END"), 
whichavar  applias. 

Mapa.  platas,  charts,  ate.,  may  ba  fHmad  at 
diffarant  raduction  ratios.  Thosa  too  larga  to  ba 
antiraly  included  in  ona  axpoaura  aro  fiimad 
baginning  in  tha  uppar  iaft  hand  comar.  iaft  to 
right  and  top  to  bottom,  as  many  framaa  as 
raquirad.  Tha  following  diagrams  iilustrata  tha 
mathod: 


1  2  3 


La*  imagas  suivantas  ont  AtA  raproduitas  avac  la 
plus  grand  soin.  compta  tanu  da  la  condition  at 
da  la  nattat*  da  i'axamplaira  film*,  at  an 
conf  ormK*  avac  las  conditions  du  contrat  da 
filmaga. 

I.aa  axampiairas  originaux  dont  la  couvartura  an 
papiar  aat  ImprimAa  sont  filmte  m*  comman9ant 
par  la  pramiar  plat  at  an  tarminant  soit  par  la 
darnlAra  paga  qui  comporta  una  ampralnta 
d'impraasion  ou  d'illustration,  soit  par  la  sacond 
pkit,  salon  la  cas.  Tous  las  sutras  axampiairas 
originaux  sont  filmAs  it  comman9ant  par  la 
pramlAra  paga  qui  comporta  una  ampralnta 
d'impraasion  ou  d'illustration  at  an  tarminant  par 
la  darnlAra  paga  qui  comporta  una  taila 
ampralnta. 

Un  das  symbolaa  suivants  spparattra  sur  ia 
darniira  imaga  da  chaqua  microfiche,  salon  ia 
cas:  la  symbols  -^>  signifia  "A  SUIVRE".  la 
symbolo  ▼  signifia  "FIN". 

Las  cartas,  planchas,  tableaux,  etc.,  peuvent  Atre 
filmis  A  dee  taux  da  reduction  diff Arents. 
Lorsque  ie  document  eet  trop  grend  pour  Atre 
reproduit  en  un  soul  clichA,  il  eet  f limA  A  pertir 
do  I'engto  supArieur  gauche,  do  gauche  A  droite. 
et  de  haut  en  baa,  en  prenant  la  nombre 
d'imegee  nAceeeaire.  Lee  diegrammes  suivants 
illustrant  la  mAtiwda. 


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4p  c/^i2<fe«R  qfi^ael,  fight  ye  not  against  the  Lord  Godofymitt 

i;r#r  ■  fathers  ;  far  ye  shall  not  prosper,         f?     » 

'H  As  the  dreadful  calamity  of  war  has  just  befallen 

your  country  and  oppresses  all  our  minds  with  grief  and 

V  gconcem,  a  discourse  upon  this  subject  is,  of  all  odier^ 

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the  most  seasonable,  as  meeting  your  most  anxious 

'[■  draughts  and  sure  to  engage  your  most  earnest  atten<* 

^ition*    The&elingsofeveiy  man,  capable  of  the  least 

reflection,  must  be  shocked  beyond  measure  by  so 

sudden  and  unexpected  a  fkU  from  peace  and  plenty^ 

ease  and  comfort,  security  and  enjoyment,  into  all  the 

privations,  the  hardships,  the  burdens,  the  perils,  the 

distresses,  the  complicated  horrors  of  war.    At  thi^ 

moment,  your  minds  are  harassed  and  your  bosoms 

•tortured  with  the  idea  of  your  sons,  your  husbands, 

.your  brothers  reluctantly  torn  from  all  the  scenes  and 

occupations  of  peace»  from  all  their  deme^c  connex- 

Ions,  enjoyments  and  pursuits,  to  be  exposed  kk  iht 

tented  field,  sul^ected  to  the  rigors  of  a  military  life, 

liable  to  the  numerous  and  fatal  diseases  of  a  camp, 

and  occasionally,  to  stand  as  so  many  marks  for  the 

^*8harp  shooters  in  the  hostile  army.    You  andcipate 

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Tand  another  of  these  your  beloved  friends  and 
relatives  fellen  in  battle,  mangled  with  wounds,  groan- 
ing and  expiring  on  the'crimsoned  field,  or  lodged  in 
military  hospitals,  there  to  linger  in  torment  for  a  little 
space,  till  nature  be  exhausted,  and  they  give  up  the 
ghost.    Your  bowels  sound  with  pain  and  yearning 
at  the  expected  accounts  of  garments  rolled  in  blood, 
and  the  extensive  carnage  spread  by  contending  ar» 
mies.    Korean  you  forbear  thinking  of  what  must 
immediately  take  place,  the  incalculable  loss  of  men 
and  of  treasure  upon  the  mighty  waters.    The  im- 
fhense  property  of  our  merchants  at  this  moment  float- 
ing from  all  quarters  of  the  globe  is,  by  thi?  one  word, 
tiMir,  given  up  an  unprotected  and  almost  certain  prey, 
together  with  the  thousands  and  thousands  of  our  sea- 
faring brethren,  having  this  property  in  charge,  to  be 
all  made  captives,  crowded  into  jails  and  on  board 
prison-ships,  or  constrained  to  man  tlie  fleets  of  the 
enemy  and  replenish  with  hands  his  thousand  cruisers. 
You  are  in  daily  expectation  of  the  ravages  which 
these  cruisers  may  make,  their  plundering&and  burn- 
ings in  the  ports  and  harbours  of  our  coast  from  one 
extremity  to  the  other ;  while  on  our  western  frontier 
through  its  whole  extent,  the  forces  of  the  two^Cana- 
das,  in  junction  With  the  numerous  tribes  of  hostile 
savages,  are  laying  waste  our  new  settlements,  bring- 
ing pillage  and  death  on  the  defenceless  inhabitants. 
Yoi^  cannot  suppress  your  sympathy  in  the  perils  to 
which  this  portioii'Of  our  population  is,  even  now 
while  I  am  speaking,  exposed.     Some  of  jrou,  my 
brethren,  still  remember  what  your  own  feelings  were 
^6n  that  day  when  almost  ever;y  breeze  of  air  brought 


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ftuencefk  on  this  abode  of  mortals — prostrating  my  soul 
before  their   great  author  and  regulator,  my  heart 
prompted  me  to  pray,  "  O  thou  God  of  order  and  of 
peace,  send  down,  I  beseech  thee,  from  thy  eternal 
throne,  a  portion  of  the  celestial  harmony  to  guide  the 
counsels  and  pursuits  of  thy  lational  offspring  here  on 
earth.    In  giving  them  existence,  thou  hast  deigned    ' 
from  thine  infinite  understanding  to  impart  to  them 
some  rays  of  intelligence*     Crown,  O  crown  thy  gift 
of  reason  to  them  by  ])enetrating  their  hearts  with  a 
portion  of  thy  love.     Give  them  to  know  and  to  feel 
how  good  and  pleasant  it  is  for  brethren  to  dwell  to- 
gether in  unity."     Thus  daily  lamenting,  and  pray- 
ing against,  the  miseries  of  war,  I  passed  through  that 
most  gloomy  portion  of  my  past  life  from  1775  till  the 
Unsporting  sound  of  peace  in  1783*^  *  a  r   -'  ^u   ..»'^ 
Abhorrent  as  my  nature  and  all  my  feelings  then 
were  from  war,  I  entertained  the  sentiment  ia  whic^'^' 
my  fellow-citizois  universally,  almost  to  a  man,lvere 
agreed,  that,  on  our  part,  it  was  necessary,  and  from 
this  conviction  I  couiijosed  and  preached  frequent  dis- 
courses to  animate  and  encourage  its  prosecution. 
Our  oppressors  had  explicitly  avowed  their  purpose 
to  wrest  from  us  our  dearest  privileges,  to  bind  us  in  I 
all  cases  whatever,  subjecting  us  to  tlieir  will  and  to 
whatever  burdens  they  might  see  fitto  impose.  They 
vacated  our  charters,  changed  the  forms  of  our  gov- 
ernments, and  answered  our  humble  petitions  and  re-  '. 
monstrances  at  the  mouths  of  tlieir  cannon.      Their 
fleets  and  armies  invaded  our  country,  srized  our" 
property,  wantonly  shed  the  blood  of  our  people,  and  o* 
themselves  commenced  the  war  with  every  mark  of!  ,. 


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i«^rocity  and  outrage.  Thus  circumstanced,  like  the 
children  of  Judah  in  the  context,  we  cried  unto  the 
Lord,  to  Him  committed  our  cause,  and  in  a  humble 
reliance  upon  him  girded  on  the  harness  in  our  own 
defence.  .  . 

In  the  motives  for  the  present  war,  who  can  dis- 
cern the  least  shade  of  resemblance  to  those  for  the 
former  ?  And  what  christian,  under  the  influence  of 
christian  principles,  can  dare  pray  for  success  ?  In 
order  to  the  least  hope  from  God,  we  must  have  a 
clear  and  perfect  conviction  that  the  war  is  just  and 
necessary ;  I  say,  necessary,  for  if  it  be  not  such  as  is 
forced  upon  us  by  absolute  and  dire  necessity,  it  can- 
not be  just.  Its  very  nature  is  violence  against  the 
lives  and  properties  of  our  fellow-beings,  our  brethren, 
the  children  of  our  common  progenitor  on  earth  and 
common  Father  in  heaven.  On  this  account  it 'is  de- 
nounced, even  when  most  just  and  necessary,  by  M, 
de  Fattel  in  his  law  of  nations,  as  "  but  a  wretched  ex- 
pedient against  those  who  spurn  at  justice  and  refuse 
the  remonstrances  of  reason.  It  is  (he  goes  on)  in 
extremities  only  that  a  just  and  wise  nation  or  a  good 
prince  has  recourse  to  it.-— Those  who  run  to  arms 
without  necessity  are  the  scourges  of  the  human  race, 
barbarians,  enemies  to  society,  and  rebels  to  the  law  of 
nature,  or  rather  to  the  common  Father  of  mankind.—* 
Humanity  is  shocked  at  a  sovereign  who  lavishes  the 
lives  of  his  subjects,  who  exposes  his  people  to  the 
havoc  and  miseries  of  war,  when  they  might  enjoy  an 
honorable  and  salutary  peace. — Besides  the  misfor- 
tunes  drawn  on  his  subjects,  for  which  he  is  account- 
4bk»  he  b  guilty  also  of  those  he  carries  amidst  an  in* 


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tiocetit  people.  The  slaughter  of  men,  the  pillage  d 
cities,  the  devastation  of  provinces,  are  his  crimes* 
He  b  responsible  to  God,  and  accountable  to  man,  ibr 
every  person  that  is  killed.  The  violences,  the  crimes^ 
the  various  disorders  attendant  on  the  licentious  tii* 
mult  of  arms,  pollute  his  conscience  and  blacken  his 
account,  as  he  is  the  original  author  of  them  all.^* 

Such  being,  in  the  judgment  of  this  wise  and  goodf 
Frenchman,  the  horrible  guilt  of  those  who  engage  in 
an  unnecessary  war,  is  it  not  the  incumbent,  the  indisi^'o 
pensable  duty  of  every  subject  of  these  States,  capable 
of  the  exercise  of  reason,  in  the  fear  t)f  God,  solemnly 
to  inquire,  whether  the  present  war  be  necessaryjf 
whether  the  pretences  for  it  be  founded,  and  in  that 
case,  whether  they  be  of  such  magnitude,  so  imkiieij|(lv 
ately  urgent  and  important,  as  to  justify  the  adbpdbnl^* 
ofso  awful  an  expedient?  This  question  b  forced 
upon  our  immediate  consideration.  Our  consciences, 
if  we  have  any,  compel  us  to  the  discussion.  Its  late 
decision  by  our  rulers  does  not  exempt  us  from  tl^ 
obligation  of  giving  it  our  most  serious  and  impar^ 
examination.  Our  rulers  are  men,  and  as  such,  are^lia*; 
ble  to  err  through  misconception.  To  them  applies  the 
interrogatory,  who  can  understand  his  ertvrs  ?    They 

.  partake  of  the  common  depravity  of  our  apostate  na- 
ture, and,  of  course,  are  liable  to  corrupt  prejudices 
and  passions,  and  from  such  depraved  principles  may 

Jbnu  wicked  decrees  and  establish  iniquity  by  law. 
It  is  the  glory  of  a  free  government,  its  chief  and  mai^» 
excellence  for  which  it  ought  to  be  desired  and  sought^ 
comprising  all  that  is  meant  or  that  is  valuable  in  lib. 
4nw  it^l^  that  it  constitutes  the  people  a  check  upoft 


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(heir  public  servants,  and,  in  the  last  resort,  gives  thens 
the  power  of  correcting  the  mistakes  and  of  remedy- 
ing the  evil  and  mischief,,  winch  the  weakness  or  the 
wickedness  of  their  rulers  may  have  produced.  They 
may  displace  such  rulers  and  commit  the  management 
of  their  affairs  to  better  characters.  If  through  their 
own  weakness  and  wickedness  they  fail  of  doing  this, 
they  forfeit  all  their  privileges,  offend  against  God,  the 
giver  of  them,  and  expose  themselves  to  his  heaviest 
judgpnents,  not  only  to  the  calamities  of  the  present  life 
as  a  community,  but  individually,  to  the  danger  of  ev- 
erlasting punishment  hereafter.  If  at  the  command  of 
weak  or  wicked  rulers,  they  undertake  an  unjust  war» 
each  man  who  volunteers  his  services  in  such  a  cause, 
or  loans  his  money  for  its  support,  or  by  his  conversa* 
tion,  his  writings,  or  any  other  mode  of  influence,  en- 
courages its  prosecution,  that  man  is  an  accomplice  in 
the  wickedness,  loads  his  conscience  with  the  blackest 
ctimesv  brings  the  guilt  of  blood  upon  his  soul,  and,  in 
the  sight  of  God  anB  his  law,  b  a  murderer.  War  i» 
hfitred  in  its  fullest  and  highest  expression,  and  St. 
John  explicidy  affirms,  that  whosoever  hateth  his  broth" 
erisa  murderer ^  and  tliat  no  murderer  hath  eternal  life* 
At  the  last  day  we  shall  be  judged,  not  by  the  laws  of 
Congress,  but  by  the  law  of  God  now  mentioned,  ^and 
Him  we  must  obey,  to  the  ne^ect  of  all  opposing  hu- 
man laws,  and  even  at  the  risk  of  our  lives.  Whether 
to  obey  God  or  man,  is  the  question  upon  which  we 
afe  to  make  up  our  ininds.  In  this  awful  dilemma, 
my  brethren,  you  and  I,  all  the  men  and  all  the  women 
iin  these  United  States,  are  now  placed*  Each  indi- 
^ual^  after  consulting  his  conscience  and  availing 


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liimself  of  all  the  information  within  his  reach,  must, 
determine  for  himself,  and  according  to  his  own  idea» 
df  responsibility  to  God,  at  whose  tribunal  he  must 
give  an  account.  Nor  has  he  much  time  for  de- 
liberation. In  obedience  to  the  hw  of  God,  that  law, 
the  fulfilment  of  which  consists  in  love,  benevolence, 
and  universal  goodness — we  are  now  immediately  to 
act  and  to  suffer  either  in  supporting,  or,  by  all  consti- 
tutional means,  resisting  that  law  of  our  rulers,  which 
proclaims  liberty  to  the  sword,  which  calls  us  to  rob 
and  slaughter  our  fellow-men,  our  brethren,  with 
ivhom  we  have  ties  of  blood,  of  interest,  of  manners, 
of  speech,  of  opinion,  and  of  religion,  incomparably 
more  near  than  \iith  the  men  of  any  other  nation  on 
earth :  Against  this  nation  we  are  commanded  to  wage 
war,  doing  them  all  possible  harm  and  mischief,  while 
they  do  all  possible  harm  and  mischief  to  us.  Into 
this  most  horrible  state  of  things  our  rulers  have 
brought  us:  In  these  dreadful  circumstances  they 
have  placed  us  by  their  declaration  of  war, 

,  %  Their  pretences  for  this,  as  stated  in  their  manifesto," 
after  being  stript  of  much  false  colouring,  many  an-- 
proved  assertions,  and^n  Abundance  of  verbal  exagge-' 
ration,  may  be  chiefly  comprised  under  three  heads. 
They  pretend  that,  in  a  war  of  almost  twenty  years' 
duration,  and  of  a  nature  and  character  different  from 
any  other  that  has  ever  happened  in  modern  ttmes,^ 
some  of  our  seamen  have  been  pressed  on  board 
British  ships — that  British  eruisers  have  sometimes 

^  insulted  our  coast ;  but  that  the  main  provocation  is, 
that  the  British  Orders  in  Council  were  not  repealed, 

,j|Rer  our  President  had  proclaimed  the  repeal  of  the 


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Berlin  and  Milan  Decrees  of  France.— ^ With  respect 
to  the  two  first  of  these  provocatioas — ^the  impress* 
ment  occasionally  of  some  of  our  sailors,  and  an  in<« 
stance  or  two  of  outrage  in  our  harbours — it  has  nev« 
er  been  pretended  that  either  of  these  was  authorised 
by  the  British  government.  In  every  instance,  they 
were  the  irregular,  unwarranted  acts  of  individuals* 
subordinate  officers,  whose  rashness  and  folly  no  gov- 
ernment can  at  all  times  and  every  where  restrain^^ 
The  redress  of  these  grievances  however,  and  com- 
pensation for  such  injuries,  after  proof  of  them  has 
been  fairly  and  fully  exhibited,  have  never  been  refus- 
ed. Our  great  ai\d  alinost  only  controversy  with 
England,  respects  her  Orders  in  Council  restricting 
our  trade  with  France,  because  France  had  first  pro-, 
hibited  our  trade  with  England  by  her  Berlin  and 
Milan  Decrees.  As  the  British  Orders  were  profess- 
edly occasioned  by  the  French  Decrees,  it  was  expect- 
ed that  they  would  be  revoked  on  the  repeal  of  thosei 
Decrees*  Our  government,  having  proclaimed  that 
repeal,  demanded  the  revocation  of  the  British  Orders^ 
England  replied  that  we  were  mastaken  in  our  asser- 
tion of  the  repeal  of  the  French  Decrees,  and,  in  proof 
of  our  mistake,  produced  official  documents  of  the 
French  government  explicidy  contradicting  our  proc- 
lamation, and  affirming  that  those  decrees,  so  far  fromr 
bekg  repealed^  were  the  fundamental  laws  of  the 
French  empire,  and  therefore  were  not  and  never 
could  be  repealed.  She  urged  further,  that  ourselves 
knew  that  they^  Were  not  repealed,  by  the  almost  daily 
loss  of  our  ships  and  cargoes  in  consequence  of  their 
continued  execution ;  as  since  the  period  of  their  pre% 


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tended  repeal,  scores,  if  not  hundreds  of  our  vessels 
had  been  seized  in  French  ports,  or  burnt  at  sea  by 
French  cruisers,  while  many  of  their  unoiTending 
crews  were  manacled  like  slaves,  confined  in  French 
prisons,  or  forced  on  board  French  ships,  to  fight 
against  England.     In  opposition  however  to  all  these 
proofs,  our  government,  with  an  hardihood  and  efiron*. 
tery  at  which  demons  might  have  blushed,  persisted  in 
asserting  the  repeal,  and,  in  revenge  against  England 
for  not  believing  them^  passed  their  non-intercourso 
law,  laid  their  embargo,  and  now  have  declared  war* 
~;  My  brethren,  if  we  have  any  regard  for  truth  and 
righteousness,  what  must  we  think  of  such  pretences 
for  war?    The  apathy  and  indifference,  with  which 
some  persons  among  us  seem  to  receive  the  annuncisi?^^ 
tion  of  it  is,  to  me,  matjter  of  amazement.    Consider<«f 
ing  that  we  are  the  subjects  of  the  Prince  of  peace^'' 
the  professors  of  that  religion  which  breathes  peace  oa , 
earth  and  good  will  towards  I'^en,  the  disciples  of  th^> 
meek  and  lowly  Jesus,  who  have  taken  his  yoke  uponl 
us,  and  entered  into  the  most  solemn  engagements  ta^ 
imitate  and  obey  him,  having  in  us  the  same  mind  that 
was  in  him,  I  am  amazed  th^t  a  general  shriek  of  hor-^ 
ror  at  this  deed  of  our  rukrs  has  not  been  hearJ  from, 
one  extremity  of  our  country  to  the  other.    For  my- 
self, from  the  moment  my  ears  received  the  tidings^  /. 
my  mind  has  been  in  a  constant  agony,  not  so  mud;^ 
at  the  inevitable  loss  of  our  temporal  prosperity  aa^i^. 
happiness,  and  the  complicated  miseries  of  war,  as  at 
its  guilt,  its  outrage  pg^nst  Heaven,  against  all  truth, 
honesty,  justice^  goodness*^— against  all  the  principles  o{: 
social  happmess*    As  a  teacher  of  righteousness,  as  a 


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minister  of  Christ,  I  feel  myself  under  obligations  in- 
finitely superior  to  all  human  laws,  most  solemnly  to 
testify,  both  in  public  and  in  private,  every  where,  in 
the  hearing  of  all  persons,  rulers  and  subjects,  against 
this  atrocious  wickedness,  and  to  lay  down  my  life, 
rather  than  cease  this  testimony.  To  you,  my  breth- 
ren, aiid  to  all  my  fellow  citizens  I  say,  in  the  language 
of  the  text,  **  FIGHT  YE  NOT  AGAINST  THE 
LORD  GOD  OF  YOUR  FATHERS ;  FOR  YE 
SHALL  NOT  PROSPER." 

No  recent  injury  has  been  done  us,  no  new  provo- 
cation has  been  offered ;  nothing  has  happened  of  a 
nature  to  inflame  the  passions,  and  to  bring  oa  the 
present  phrenzy.  It  is  therefore  the  more  wonderful, 
andean  be  accounted  for  on  no  other  principle,  but  the 
imperceptible  influence  which  the  author  of  alt  evil, 
the  spirit  that  workethinthe  children  of  disobedience^ 
has  been  permitted  to  exert  in  the  hearts  of  dark-mind- 
ed, cool,  deliberately  wicked  rulers.  They  have  ac- 
knowledged themselves  caught  and  entangled  in  the 
toils  of  Bonaparte,  that  rival  of  satan  himself  in  guile 
and  mischief,  and  his  most  conspicuous  agent  here  on 
earth.  He  twisted  and  prepared  the  slip-noose  which 
our  rulers,  in  fulfilment  of  prior  engagements  to  him, 
have  put  about  the  neck  of  their  countr}'.  Thus 
strangling  us,  snug  in  their  lucrative  places,  with  the 
calmness  trf  French  philosophers,  they  enjoy  our  ago- 
nies. "  The  king  and  Haman  sat  down  to  drink, 
but  the  city  Shushan  was  perplexed."  ' '  >5^^^^*.  » 
"'  Were  not  the  authors  of  this  war  in  character 
nearly  akin  to  the  deists  and  atheists  of  France ;  were 
Hhey  nut  men  of  hardened  hearts,  seared  conscience&ii 


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reprobate  minds,  and  desperate  in  wickedness;    k 
seems  utterly  inconceivable  that  they  should  have 
made  the  declaration.      Their  pretensions,  in  my  . 
judgment,  are  either  glaring,  unblushing  falsehoods^ 
or  for  tilings  so  trifling  and  unimportant  that  it  may 
be  queried  whether  they  would  not  be  wickedly  ob- 
tained at  the  hazard  of  a  single  life.    The  trade  of 
France  is  confessedly  the  main  object    That  trade  in 
its  very  best  state,  before  the  restrictions  on  either 
side,  it  has  been  abundantly  proved,  amounted  not  to 
the  tenth  part  of  our  trade  to  England  which  France 
first  prohibited.;  yet  we  go  to  war  against  England  in 
favor  of  France,  and  this  too  at  a  time  when  France 
has  so  encumbered  our  trade  with  her  by  duties  and 
restrictions  as  to  render  it  worse  than  nothing,  and  its 
prohibition  by  England  no  grievance.    What  object 
then  is  there  for  the  war,  which  is  the  destruction  of 
all  trade  and  of  all  the  persons  who  depend  upon  it  for 
their  support?    How  black  must  be  the  motives  to 
such  a  war ;   a  war  in  reality  against  ourselves,  our 
interest  and  happiness*    Is  there  not  room  to  fear  that 
its  authprs  may  have  secretly  formed  their  plan  after 
the  model  of  the  French  revolutionists? 

t  Circumstanced  as  the  country  now  is,  divided  in- 
to two  great  parties,  the  present  rulers  cannot  feci 
themselves  secure  in  their  places,  before  such  a  phal- 
anx of  opposers  as  their  past  proyoking  conduct  has 
embodied  against  them  in  all  the  mercantile  States. 
Conscious  of  their  guilt  and  danger,  but  destitute,  as 
&llen  angels,  of  any  heart  to  repent,  party  spirit  and 
i^ge  have  so  worked  them  up  that  tliey  have  at  length 
become  desperate,  and  in  a  fit  of  desperation  have 


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proclaimed  war*  They  well  know  that  in  a  free  goi)"' 
eminent  like  ours,  war  cannot  be  carried  on  without 
the  general  and  almost  unanimous  consent  of  the  peo- 
ple, and  that  a  great  body  of  opponents  must  occa- 
sion a  civil  war.  Situated  as  the  country  now  is,  this 
they  must  expect ;  but  as  they  have  the  power  in  their 
hands  and  count  upon  being  on  the  strongest  side,  hav> 
ing  the  great  Bonaparte  for  their  ally,  assisted  by  him, 
do  they  not  mean  to  rush  on  to  the  war  against  Eng- 
land over  the  dead  bodies  of  its  vanquished  opposers  7 
Is  there  not,  at  least,  room  to  fear  this?  i*  1/  tiwt« 
"*  If  at  the  present  moment,  no  symptoms  of  civil 
war  appear,  they  certainly  will  soon,  unless  the  cour- 
9^  pi  the  war  party  should  fail  them.  The  opposi- 
don'^^mprises  all  the  best  men  in  the  nation,  men  of 
the  g^test  talents,  courage  and  wealth,  and  whose 
Washingtonian  principles  will  compel  them  to  die 
father  than  stain  dieir  hands  in  the  blood  of  an  unjust 
war.  Prudence  leads  them  at  present,  to  cloak  their 
opposi^n  under  constitutional  forms.  Provoked  at 
these  obstacles,  the  patrons  of  war  will  have  recourse 
to  violence.  Attempts  will  be  first  made  to  bridle  the 
tongues  and  pens  of  the  opponents.  This  has  been 
done  hi  Congress  already,  while  the  war-question  was 
under  debate.  It  was  by  gagging  the  mouth  of  a 
Randolph  anC  wther  enlightened  patriots  that  the  act 
passed.  The  mouths  of  the  opposition  abroad  must 
be  next  gagged,  their  hands  tied,  and  their  feet  made  to 
^ove  aC  the  will  of  the  war-pafty.  When  in  the 
course  of  their  progress,  the  enemy  shall  be  coming 
as  a  flood,  and  the  distresses  of  w^  shall  press  heav^^ 
all  their  losses  and  misfortunes  will  be  attributed  to 


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their  present  opponents.     Against  these  a  popular 
clamour  will  be  set  up,  a  deadly  hatred  excited.  They 
will  be  called  enemies  to  their  country,  traitors,  the 
.friends  of  Britain  and  of  monarchy,  opposers  of  a  re* 
publican  government,  and  insurgents  against  the  laws. 
Whoever  robs  or  murders  them  will  think  that  he 
does  God  and  his  country  service.     At  length  they 
will  be  proclaimed  rebels,  and  force  used  to  sub- 
due them.    As  no  considerable  number  of  men  will 
tamely  surrender  their  lives,  force  on  the  one  side  will 
produce  force  on  the  other.  Thus  a  civil  war  becomes 
as  certain  as  the  events  which  happen  according  to  the 
known  laws  and  established  course  of  nature. 
^     In  New  England,  the  war  declared  cannot  heap* 
proved  by  any  but  here  and  there  a  furious  party  lead- 
er, a  few  ignorant,  delrded  fanatics,  and  a  handful  of 
desperadoesc    It  must  be  abhorred  by  more  than  nine 
tenths  of  the  people  ii)  the  mercantile  states,  and  by 
every  sober,  good  man  in  all  the  states.     In  the  &ce  ^ 
of  an  opposition  so  numerous  and  formidable,  how 
desperate  and  sanguinary  must  have  been  the  views  of 
its  authors  ?    Their  chosen  master,  Bonaparte,  how- 
ever, must  be  obeyed,  at  every  hazard.    They  could 
not  endure  his  reproaches,  tliat  '*  they  were  without 
policy,  without  spirit,  without  principle,  and  inferior  to 
a  colony  of  Jamaica."  ■■  *^p?  -^^  ■■m*>^'  ' fwri-^"  y-mM  -i^im  ■  ^^m  - 
a  My  brethren,  the  blood  runs  cold  in  my  veins  at 
the  prospect  of  the  heart  chilling  scenes  before  us. 
The    thing  which  we  greatly  feared  is  come  up- 
on  use       Standing  by  the  bed  of  death,  I  have 
often   exhorted  the  dying,  as  a  temper  suitable  to 
their   awful  situation,  to  be  thankful  for  the  m 


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cles  of  their  past  lives,  and  that  thej  have  lived  sb. 
long.  A  like  temper  now  becomes  us  all.  We  have 
abundant  reason  to  be  thankful  to  the  God  of  our  lav 
thers,  that  this  dreadful  calamity  has  not  sooner  over- 
taken us.  It  is  within  the  recoHection  of  many  of 
y6u,  that  in  1794,  eighteen  years  ago^  it  would  have 
befkilen  us,  had  the  man  by  whom  it  has  been  now 
proclaimed  been  able  to  effect  his  purpose.  At  that 
time  indeed  we  had  received  much  greater  provoca^ 
tion  than  any  of  wluch  we  now  complain.  It  is  well 
known  that  Mr.  Madison  exerted  his  utmost  influence 
in  Congress  fora  declaration  of  war,  and  in  all  prob- 
ability would  have  elected  it,  had  not  the  great  an^ 
good  Either  of  his  country  stood  as  a  bulwark  against 
Mm*  To  the  administration  of  Washington  he  was 
inveterately  hostile:  aind  whoever,  with  an  impartial 
eye^  has  observed  his  official  conduct,  especially  to4 
vmd  England,  from  that  day  to  this,  must  be  con-, 
strained  to  believe  that  he  has  been  uniformly  seeking 
what  hfe  has  now  obt^uned.    '^' *-:  'f-';'«''^>fc'-¥-'v/'^«»-H'f^^^ 

In  the  mean  while  however,  notwithstanding  all 
the  spoliations  of  the  powers  at  war,  we  have  been 
^wing^  6eyond  aD  former  example,  in  riches  and  in 
whatever  constitutes  the  prosperity  and  happiness  of  a 
people.  Wealth  has  flown  in  upon  our  sea-port^,  ev- 
ery foot  of  ground  belonging  to  them  has  risen  in 
value  more  lliah  a  thousand  per  cent,  thd  number  of 
buildings  has  doubled  and  trebled,  many  of  them  have 
risen  spacious  and  splendid  palaces,  and  our  merchants 
have  become  princes  in  onulence.  while  every  class  of 
tradesmen,  mechanics,  and  labourers^  have  had  full 
luod  constant  employ,  and  more  than  double  wages. 


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to  your  ears  the  alarming  report, "  that  the  enemy  was 
at  hand,  that  you  must  instantly  leave  your  habitations 
and  fl}  for  your  lives."  My  ^es  have  witnessed  and 
by  pei^nal  experience  I  know,  and  those  of  you  who 
are  my  coevals,  by  the  same  experience  also  know, 
that  the  particulars  in  the  description  now  given  are 
the  fruits  and  effects  of  war — were  fully  realized, 
most  dreadfully  exemplified  in  that  war  in  which  we 
ourselves  were  formerly  involved, 
i'  Look  at. this  picture,  ye  self-called  true  republi* 
€ans,  contemplate  its  variegated  features ;  then  go  and 
advocate  the  war  now  proclaimed ;  extol  to  the  skies, 
the  wisdom  and  patriotism  of  its  authors ;  with  your 
accustomed  zeal  and  vehemence  electioneer  afresh  in 
their  favor ;  and  again  fill  your  gazettes  with  increased 
floods  of  abuse  and  slander  on  the  few  surviving 
fiiends  of  the  Godlike  Washington,  on  Strong,  Pick- 
ering, and  Jay ;  in  short,  on  all  the  enlightened  lovers 
of  peace  and  of  their  country :  hasten  a  new  edition  of 
thc^  farragoes  of  excitements  to  war,  and  of  malig- 
nant calumnies  against  its  opposers,  contained  in  the 
speeches  and  proclamations  of  your  admired  Gerry. 

But  the  subject  is  too  serious  and  awful  for  irony* 
I  have. not  forgotten,  nor  can  I  ever  forget,  while  con- 
sciousness abides  with  me,  my  own  mental  sufferings 
-during  the  period  of  our  former  war.  Through  those 
•eight  long  years  whose  slow  lingering  pace,  while 
hope  was  deferred  and  the  heart  sickened  with  pain 
.and  anguish,  seemed  without  end— a  burden  lay  upon 
my  spirits  by  day  and  by  night  almost  too  heavy  for 
frail  mortality  to  sustain.  During  the  hours  of  repose, 
i^sdons  of  horror  rose  in  my  imagination  and  disturb- 


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«d  my  rest :  through  the  long  lived  day,  the  distresstx» 
'of  my  country  and  the  dangers  and  disasters  of  my 
friends  harassed  my  thoughts.  In  the  mean  while, 
the  course  of  nature  moved  on  tranquil  and  serene, 
without  suspension  or  interruption.  The  delightful 
vicissitudes  of  day  and  night,  and  the  cheering  rota- 
lion  of  the  seasons,  were  what  they  had  tbeen  before, 
and  what  they  have  continued  to  be  since ;  but  to  my 
feelings  they  were  not  the  same  and  brought  not  the 
accustomed  pleasure.  K  in  an  early  morning  walk  at 
the  rise  of  the  orb  of  day,  in  the  splendour  of  his 
beams  I  behdd  the  vast  creation  around  me  and  ex<c 
claimed  with  the  poet, 

.  ^  ,  .    "  These  are  thy  glorious  works,  Parent  of  good! 
Almighty !  thine  this  universal  frame. 
Thus  wondrous  fiur  ('* 

instantly  my  wounded  spirit  urged  the  remonstrance, 
**  yet  why,  thou  great  source  of  beneficence,  is  thy 
chosen  creature  man,  for  whose  sake  thb  ample  provi- 
sion has  been  made,  why  is  he  given  up  to  those  pas- 
sions and  lusts,  those  strifes  and  contentions  which  fill 
the  moral  system  with  disorder,  with  confusion,  and 
evety  evil  work  !  Why  do  I  hear  the  sound  of  the 
trumpet  and  the  alarm  of  war,  the  proud  and  clamo- 
rous shouts  of  discord  and  battle  ?"-rIf  again  at  even- 
tide, on  the  adjacent  hills  I  meditated  on  the  starry 
firmament,  on  the  planetary  systems  there  hung  forth 
to  our  admiring  view,  the  unnumbered  worlds  rolling 
over  our  heads,  and  reflected  on  the  perfect  order  and 
harmony  with  which  they  continue  their  unceasing 
movements,  their  respective  revolutions,  each  in  his 
own  destined  orbit,  without  any  perceptible  deviation, 
^and  regularly,  from  age  to  age,  shed  their  benign  In- 


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This  prosperity  from  trade  has  extended  and  diffused 
Its  salutary  and  enlivening  effects  over  the  face  of  the 
whole  country,  into  every  town  and  village,  and  to  the 
remotest  settlements  in  the  wilderness.      This  full 
tide  of  prosperous  and  successful  experiment  was 
principally  occasioned  by  Jat/^s  treaty  with  Great  Brit- 
ain ;  and  it  continued  without  abatement  to  the  expi« 
ration  of  that  treaty*.    Of  all  the  nations  on  the  globci 
we  progressed  incomparably  the  most  happy  and  pros^ 
perous,  up  to  the  period  when  our  own  Jeffersons  and, 
Madisons,  with  their  adjutors,  commenced  their  dep*t 
redations  upon  us.     From  that  era,  we  have  been  as 
rapidly  declining,  as  we  were  increasing  before.    Al« '" 
ready  real  estate,  both  in  town  and  country,  has  lost 
nearly  half  its  value  in  consequence  of  the  laws  against 
commerce.    The  great  body  of  our  merchants  will 
not  hesitate  to  declare,  that  they  liave  experienced 
more  embarrassment  in  their  business,  and  have  sus^  ^ 
tained  greater  losses  in  consequence  of  non-importatioii 
acts,  embargoes,  non-intercourses,  and  other  absun|.| 
laws  of  our  own  government,  than  all  that  tlicy  ever  ^ 
sustained  in  the  same  time  from  the  nations  at  war.  ^j^ 
believe  it  too  to  be  a  fact,  that  the  execution  dfthosiB 
iniquitous  laws  has  occasioned  the  loss  of  more  lives, 
than  the  country  has  ever  I03C  amidst  the  collisions  of 
the  wiuring  powers.    By  the  enactment  of  such  laws^,, 
the  vessel  of  state  was  run  agroijnd,  unrigged,  and 
various  hands  employed  in  hacking  it  to  pieces.    But 
even  these  methods  of  destruction  w^^^too  tardy  to 
satisfy  the  impatience  of  the  great  en^my  of  human 
felicity,  the  tyrant  of  France.     At  his  nod,  we  have 
now  in  a  moment  been  thrown  into  a  gulf  of  misery, 


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il^hose  bounds  and  bottom  no  eye,  short  of  omniscience, 
oan  discern.  « 

One  hope  only  remains,  that  this  last  stroke  of  ^ 
perfidy  may  open  the  eyes  of  a  besotted  and  most 
wretchedly  deluded  people,  that  they  may  awake,  like 
a  giant  from  his  slumbers,  and  wreak  their  vengeance 
on  their  betrayei^  b^  driving  them  from  their  sta- 
tions, and  placing  at  helm  more  skilful  and  faith- 
ful hands.  Indignant  as  I  feel  towards  the  present 
rulers  as  the  guilty  authors  of  the  public  calamities,  I 
ln^  them  no  other  harm  but  a  speedy  return  to  that 
IfiyatB  condit^|i^|om  which  they  have  only  emerged 
to  pour  blasting^i^mUdew  upon  their  cQUntry^  Jf 
thcf  Mve  notpiniii^yondthe  i^chdfidiyii^ 
oy,  I  can  still  pray  for  them«  and  ttiat  they  may  soon 
be  pla^  in  that  retirement  which  is  the  most  &voiir- 
able  to  c<^siderjitioft''and  ««pentance4-p-JFortnyaetf, 
according  to  the  course  of  nature,  X  haye  but  a  short 
tim^  ^ther  to  mourn  or  rejoice  in  the  affairs  of  men ; 
.but  while  it  shall  p}eafe  God  tp  continue  me  in  this 
'  tabernacle,  by  his  gra<%,  no^fear  of  maashaU  letter  me 
from  discharging  what  in  my  conscience  {believe  to 
be  my  duty,;  in  testifying  against  wicke^to^ss/in  higtl 
place%  as  weil  as  in  low.  ^-"fifi-. 


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